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Info 2024/2025

Degree type MASTER'S DEGREE
Duration 2 years
CFU 120
Class LM-87
SOCIAL SERVICES AND POLICIES
Access Free access
Locations GENOVA
Language Italian
Teaching mode In-person
Head of programme VALENTINA DI GREGORIO
Department DIPARTIMENTO DI GIURISPRUDENZA
Taxes and fees From 0 to 3,000 a year. Find out if you qualify for grants ed exemptions
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The course in brief

Presentation

The aim of the master's degree is to train a highly qualified professional, capable of assuming positions of high autonomy and ethical-professional responsibility, both as an employee and as a freelancer, with regard to the design, organisation, management, communication and evaluation of integrated systems of social services and individual activities in the many areas of welfare, institutional and non-profit.

Learning by doing

In addition to carrying out curricular professional training activities, the degree course organises seminar cycles aimed at enriching the student's education.

Professional outlets

The qualification is a prerequisite for admission to the State examination for registration in Section A of the Professional Register of Social Workers. Since this is a specialised degree course, which is a natural continuation of the

As this is a specialist degree course, which is a natural continuation of the three-year degree in social work,

the degree opens up opportunities for a managerial career.

In particular, the main professional outlets for graduates in Social Work and Social Policy include: 

  • the free profession;
  • the social management and territorial and area coordination in local authorities;
  • the coordination of social work in the Local Health Authorities;
  • the coordination of services for the protected dimensions (e.g. the elderly) in hospitals hospitals;
  • the role of referent for the planning of social and socio-health services in the regions;
  • the coordination of the USSM (Office of Juvenile Social Services) ex DPCM 15 June 2015, no. 84) and of the UDEPE (Departmental Office of External Criminal Execution);
  • the project coordinator of Home Care Services, Services for Social Inclusion and Poverty Alleviation, and Social and Socio-Health Residential and Day Care Facilities, within the third sector entities

Did you know that...

The traineeship will be an educational and professional experience

The qualification is a prerequisite for admission to the state examination for registration in section A of the Professional Register of Social Workers

Coordinator

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8711_Valentina Di Gregorio

Welcome to the Master of Social Work and Social Policy degree programme. Our community - students, lecturers, tutors and all staff - is strongly committed to merging teaching with research.

You will become an expert in the field of social service and social policy, live and study in a friendly atmosphere and share our enthusiasm for knowledge.

Valentina Di Gregorio

Where we are

Lectures are held in the lecture halls of the University building, Via Balbi 5, and at the didactic pole of the former Albergo dei Poveri, Piazzale Emanuele Brignole 2, Genoa.

Department of Law
Via Balbi 5
16126 Genoa

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Social Sciences Student One-Stop Shop
Piazza della Nunziata 9r, Genoa
giurisprudenza@segreterie.unige.it
01020951890

Opening hours:
Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays 9 a.m. - 12 noon
Tuesdays 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Educational Secretariat
didattica.ddg@unige.it

Jurisprudence Department Secretariat
presidenza@giuri.unige.it